If I’m able to scribble the following reflection without sounding all over the place I’ve earned myself a pat on the back. In the most spectacularly foolish fashion possible I’ve managed to jinx myself into an unworldly writers block.
It’s funny because earlier last week I was confidently telling the world how I don’t actually believe in such a notion, yet here I am like a dog with its tail between its legs writing about how I’m struggling to put two sentences together.
Truth is though there’s a few points here and there where I can almost justify my excuse. For one I’m not really dealing with the type of writers block where nothing is coming to mind, I’m dealing with this annoying reluctance to allow my expressions to be that which they’ll be instead of forcing them into something their not.
This leads me into my second point where I think my ‘Writer’s block’ might be a symptom of this conflict of interest between a heart felt story telling expression, and a display of braggadocios and elite lyricism. I don’t usually have this issue, but recently I’ve been finding myself dealing with it more and more with each verse I write.
Now believe it or not it’s really hard to please everyone, and as I mentioned in one of my earlier entries a focus on one mode of expression is the dismissal of the other. I guess the reason why I’m stuck is because I’m struggling to choose between those the two modes.
Whilst I don’t close myself off to the possibility that both can modes can be weaved and expressed together, I have to accept the reality that not only is this easier said than done, one mode of writing could very easily take precedence over the other.
Believe it or not there’s a clear difference between the two. Whilst one style is focused more on the emotion in the lyrics, the other focuses on the excitement in the way in which lyrics are being expressed.
This is where taste becomes an issue because where some listeners are more orientated to wordsmith heavy songs, some are more keen to experience the rawness of one’s heavy emotions.
I’m sure I’ll find a way to figure this out, even though I just admit;m, this might take me a while lol.
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